There is a substantial difference between a "Please give us money" served from the same servers that you are accessing, and a third-party advertisement loaded with tracking beacons, malicious cookies (and often evercookies) from the evil advertising industry.
The former is annoying. The latter is annoying and invasive.
Yes, I've seen the banners myself. Asking users directly for money means you're not worried about what advertisers, or other investors, will think about the content on your site. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5L1CR0CEAEN78C.jpg <- Sorry for the text-in-a-picture but the original thread is dead.
The behavior of the WP adminship surrounding that particular controversy has revealed a serious problem with their policies that they do not seem to want to fix: consensus is regarded as gospel.
It is physically impossible for Wikipedia to factually report on something that is being misrepresented by the mass media, because mass media consensus is taken as the only thing that matters in establishing verifiability per their policies. This means that if the media is misrepresenting something, so will Wikipedia, and any attempts to correct the record will be seen as "original research" and deleted.
Say what you want about that particular controversy, but the problem is real either way.
